Human Resources ➔ ACTE's got talent!
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives is trying to reverse the brain drain from our industry with an imaginative initiative to hunt down the bright young things of the future
ACTE'S talent-spotting initiative, 3 under 33, comes to a crescendo this month (September) when the nominations for the EMEA region heat closes. Four new names have recently
been added to the existing band of 14 nominees as potential bright young things of the future. They are Emma DeLange, a buyer at Amdocs; Jason Geall, managing director of GetThere; Carel Aucamp, a buyer at Agrega; and Vadim Zalenski, CEO of Zalenski Corporate Travel Solutions in Russia. They join the list of 14 existing EMEA nominees. The complete list is shown below. These 18 to have made the short-list have been nominated for a variety of reasons: Francois Dodane for showing the real benefits of high speed rail to the industry; Joe Dunnick of Concur for his innovative methods to show competing content, including delivery through mobile devices; Shashank Dogra of American Express Business Travel for his white paper on merging the corporate and meetings travel related spend within organisations; Warren Dix, head of sales UK and Ireland at BCD Travel for stream- lining the bid process – hoorah!; and 28-year-old Timothy Gordon, head of travel sourcing at Royal Bank of Scotland, for globalising 45 countries into one TMC, travel policy, hotel and airline PSL and security/risk management system. The bank’s travel programme has been benchmarked by McKinsey & Company as a world class travel organisation. All 18 nominees will be reviewed
by a judging body as potential winners of ACTE's 3 under 33 EMEA winner, the industry body's initiative to 'recognise and bring on fresh new talent for tomorrow, to help reinvigorate and power our industry'. “I don’t envy the judges evaluating the nominations with so many outstanding nominees, but we are actively encouraging more people with fresh young industry minds to be recognised,” explains Caroline Allen of ACTE.
The three EMEA winners will
each win a seat on the ACTE board “and will have a significant opportunity help shape the future of our industry,” she adds. Winners will be announced at ACTE's Paris Global Conference in October. They will then compete with those already recognised as 3 under 33 winners in the Asia- Pacific and Americas regions, to go for the major prize of being one of three global winners crowned at the same time. The Americas winners were announced at the ACTE Global Education Conference in New York last April. They are Evan Konwiser, co-founder of FlightCaster; Miriam Moscovici, senior director, emerging technologies at BCD Travel; and Steven Mandelbaum, managing director, information systems at The Advisory Board Company. The three Asia-Pacific winners were announced in August at a regional ACTE conference in Singapore. The 3 under 33 programme
is one of many new initiatives masterminded by ACTE executive director Ron Di Leo and his team. His thinking is that the industry is
now “commodotised, trans- actionalised and less fun“, and this impacts on what type of people the industry now needs. “It needs a fresh approach and
new material as there are more people leaving the industry than joining it,“ he says. “The main drivers of the industry are direct connect and technology, so we
need some of the brightest thinkers in the industry.” Who’s eligible to join this select band? Anyone under the age of 33 who has been responsible for implementing a new idea, product or approach in the previous year. Complete an application form on the website (
http://3under33.com) by September 16.
THE EMEA NOMINATIONS SO FAR...
Carel Aucamp, Buyer, Agrega • Norman Bandi, Editor, Handelszeitung, Axel Springer Switzerland • Andrew Benson Greene, Founder and CEO, B-Gifted Foundation • Matt Beck, Regional Director UK, Rearden Commerce • Sabine Bierlein, Manager ITB Business Travel Days, Messe Berlin/ITB Berlin • Emma DeLange, Buyer, Amdocs • François Dodane, Manager, Business Travel, Thalys International • Warren Dix, Head of Sales, UK & Ireland, BCD Travel • Shashank Dogra, Meeting & Events Planner, EMEA Venue Sourcing Specialist, American Express Business Travel • Joe Dunnick, Senior Manager, R&D, Concur • Jason Geall, Managing Director EMEA, GetThere • Timothy Gordon, Head of Travel Sourcing, Royal Bank of Scotland Group • Christine Herzer, Talent Management Director, World Tourism Forum Lucerne • Bernward Hohenbild, Director Business Technology Central Europe, Hogg Robinson Germany GmbH & Co. KG • Henk-Jan Van Alphen, Scenario Planner, Futureconsult • Stefan Wagner, Managing Director, mvolution GmbH • Ilyas Zameer, CEO & Founder, TechTuners, Travel Industry Automation Experts • Vadim Zalenski, CEO, Zalenski Corporate Travel Solutions in Russia
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